What to do if you Important suspect poisoning information Contact your local hospital Northern Tararua livestock or doctor, or dial 111 National Poisons Centre and taonga species protection Warning signs will be placed at all exposed to 1080. Hunting can resume 0800 POISON (764 766) main access points to the operational approximately four months following If a domestic animal is area and everyone must follow the the control work. poisoned, contact a local cautions on the signs. There’s no health risk when using this area as Please observe these rules whenever veterinarian. long as you follow these instructions: you see warning signs about the pesticide. Warning signs indicate that Do not handle any bait or allow pesticide residues may still be present children to wander unsupervised. in the baits or carcasses. When the Cereal baits containing 1080 are signs are officially removed, you can dyed green. Further resume normal activities in the area.  Do not hunt or take game from information within a two kilometre radius of Free dog muzzles will be provided the operational area for human or on request. Please contact OSPRI on OSPRI pet consumption. It’s an offence to 06 353 2710 or [email protected] Office sell meat products that have been to obtain a muzzle. P 06 353 2710 E [email protected] W ospri.co.nz Photo © DOC

DOC A joint approach views on the proposed operation. navigational equipment will be used to Feedback from this process was carefully ensure the pellets are accurately placed, Do not bring dogs into the area until the P 06 377 0700 OSPRI and the Department of considered and informed the decision- exclusion zones avoided, and an accurate warning signs have been officially removed. E @doc.govt.nz Conservation (DOC) are collaborating making process. EPRO Ltd, contracted record of bait distribution kept. Dogs are particularly susceptible to 1080. They must not be W doc.govt.nz on a predator control operation in by OSPRI, carried out consultation with allowed access to bait or poisoned carcasses which remain the . This will increase landowners and other affected parties Contractor toxic to dogs until they have fully decomposed. the effectiveness and efficiency of on its behalf. Contractors discussed Epro Ltd their respective objectives: OSPRI boundary issues, water supply safety P 0800 ASK EPRO to eradicate TB and DOC to protect and management of risks to dogs and (0800 275 3776) native plants and wildlife, such as kākā. livestock and how to mitigate any E [email protected] impacts of the proposed operation, For more information on Timeline such as changing the planned control There is no risk controlling bovine TB and area. Consents for the first section to public drinking how and why 1080 is used This operation will now be completed (green on the map) have been granted in , visit as two separate operations. The first from both the Public Health Unit and water 1080facts.co.nz section (green on the map) is scheduled the Department of Conservation. Biodegradable 1080 is highly soluble for control in the first suitable weather and does not persist in water or DOC’s Tiakina Nga Manu work see: window from mid-May 2021 onwards. soil. Local health authorities apply www.doc.govt.nz/our-work The second section (orange on the Operational details strict conditions to aerial operations /tiakina-nga-manu map) is still going through the consent The aerial operation will use biodegradable so that drinking water supplies are For guidance on recreational hunting process. If approved, we estimate the 1080. It will begin with the distribution not contaminated. Safety has been see our factsheet ‘TB Information treatment of this section will start in of non-toxic cereal pellets by helicopter. Notification confirmed by tests on several thousand for Hunters’ at ospri.co.nz late 2021. The map has more details These brown cylindrical shaped baits Affected landowners and occupiers water samples taken after aerial 1080 of the areas. Another update will are 4cm long and 2cm in diameter. will be contacted again before the For guidance on commercial operations over many years. be provided when the consenting The toxic operation will then occur no commencement of the operation hunting see the Ministry for processes are complete and decisions earlier than five days and within 6 weeks would start. Public notices will Primary Industries and Department have been made. of the pre-feed (weather dependent). be published in local newspapers of Conservation websites. Each bait contains 0.15% of sodium and warning signs will be placed For more information see Planning fluoroacetate (also known as 1080) and at all likely access points to the OSPRI’s Operational Status Page, will be distributed at a 1.5–2kg/ha rate. operational area. or DOC’s Pesticide Summary. DOC and OSPRI have engaged with Toxic baits are green, 16–20mm wide iwi and key stakeholders to hear their and cylindrical shaped. Advanced GPS

ospri.co.nz OSPRI DOC ospri.co.nz OSPRI DOC TBfree is an OSPRI programme TBfree is an OSPRI programme doc.govt.nz 0800 482 463 (06) 377 0700 doc.govt.nz 0800 482 463 (06) 377 0700 The road to TB eradication

Testing wildlife We check the wildlife to see if TB is present in an area.

Possum control – year one Possums spread TB. Getting numbers low will help stop TB.

Keeping possum numbers low It’s really important to keep possum numbers low over multiple years to break the TB cycle.

Testing wildlife central sections of this TB management We test wildlife to check if Benefits of area since 1996 (Upper Ōtaki) and 2001 TB still exists. The animals will collaboration (Maungahao/Ruamahanga). The last be checked for signs of TB. infected herd was in 2003 in the western Samples may be grown in between OSPRI section of the range. a laboratory. If TB is found, and DOC you will be told by TBfree. Goal 2: Protecting native Goal 1: Targeting possums species through predator TB TB Eradicated to eradicate TB control in Reducing and keeping the possum population low reduces the risk of Project Kākā TB being spread. OSPRI’s TBfree The Tararua range is home to the iconic programme uses possum control kākā, bellbirds, kakariki, rifleman and along with regular herd testing and other native birds. Native tree fuchsia movement restrictions to achieve bovine is also present. Project Kaka, DOC’s TB eradication goals. Information from proposed area for predator control, wild animal surveys, recent and historic is at the southern end of OSPRI’s TB findings of TB in wild animals, herd Management Area in the northern part testing results and the operational of the Tararua Forest Park. DOC has history of the region are used when controlled possums, rats, stoats and planning operations. goats in the area to protect native fauna and flora against browsing and TB eradication goals are: predation every three years since 2011, • TB freedom in cattle and deer herds and prior to that at six-to-seven year by 2026 intervals. Since 1994 more than 60,000 ha of the range has been controlled. • TB freedom in possums by 2040 • TB freedom in all wildlife by 2055 Predator TB history in the Tararua Range TB has been found in the wildlife on the control works aerial 1080 operation and increasing eastern side of the range from Mt Bruce By knocking the predator population populations of native bird species. to Mikimiki Crown and on the western down and keeping numbers low, Monitoring of plants such as tree fuchsia side from Ōtaki Forks to Holdsworth native species in the area are able to clearly shows survival is far better in campground. This is an area covering regenerate. Intensive monitoring by areas that have had predator control. Estimated start date – late 2021 29,801 hectares in the Northern Tararuas. DOC, OSPRI, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare The last control in the western side Research and Greater DOC and OSPRI will monitor the result was in 2013 and in 2014 for the eastern Regional Council has shown significant of this operation and update all affected Application starts May/June side. There has been no control in the drops in predator numbers after each parties on the reduction of predators.

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